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Hi everyone, welcome to X-raylipy. We are back. It's me, Georgie Porter. I know we've shown Garbenter.

Yay, and Georgie you're feeling lubed and improved.

I have not stopped talking for ages and constantly chatting, so my throat is getting a bit more wet.

So we have a listener letter. Our first listener letter is from Chrissy, who's saying,

hi, both, I just started following a vegan diet. We were supposed to have followed about six months ago.

And that was challenging. I'm really enjoying it. I feel like I have more energy. It also feels like I'm doing my bit for the environment too.

Annoyingly, my girlfriend is not being very supportive of my decision.

She refuses to eat the same meals as me at home, and whenever we try to eat out, she'll immediately shut down any of my suggestions.

The vegan friendly restaurants, I suggest, aren't any more expensive than where we would go regularly.

So I think she's just being fussy. How do I get her to be a bit more open-minded and try out some meat-free cooking?

I am not asking her to give up meat and fish completely, but it would be great if we could cook and eat the food that I've made together.

This is interesting as we sort of go on our journey to potentially being vegan.

I've got a vegan restaurant near me, so it is a lot easier for me to eat vegan meals for breakfast, lunch, things like that.

So I've been doing it a bit more, but you know what?

Chrissy, and I feel like you are being a bit of a vegan pusher. And nobody likes a vegan pusher.

And actually, probably your girlfriend is probably pushing back on that and being like, no, actually don't force me to eat your food.

There's vegans, it's great to be a vegan, it's great and I've fully applauded it, but don't push it on someone because you start to change your personalities becoming different.

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